Opened 4 hours ago
#908 new defect
Display server text mode support
| Reported by: | Jiri Svoboda | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 0.17.1 |
| Component: | helenos/unspecified | Version: | mainline |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocker for: | Depends on: | ||
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Description
Currently most UI applications can run in text mode (in the console / terminal). Given GFX/UI being relatively agnostic to running in graphics/text mode, adding support for text mode to the display server should be relatively simple.
The work consists mostly of:
- creating the pre-requisite display device driver that supports text mode
- allowing a GFX context to announce text mode capability (otherwise windowed applications would think they are running in graphics mode)
- implementing a text mode cursor in the display server (may require support for enhancing GC with XOR bit operation)
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